A state-of-the-art $65 million police station was commissioned by Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan at Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara yesterday, with ‘user-friendly’ facilities that include a special room for dealing with domestic violence complaints.
The police are investigating the murder of a man, who was discovered early yesterday morning with chop wounds about his body and his head almost severed from his neck at Haslington North, East Coast Demerara.
A 46-year-old clothes vendor was yesterday afternoon fatally stabbed by her husband following an argument and the man is now hospitalised in a critical condition after he subsequently tried to kill himself at the couple’s Nabaclis Sideline Dam, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home.
A seven-year-old remains in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after she suffered severe burns to most of her body in a fire that gutted her Mon Repos North, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home early on Monday morning.
The driver of a Route 42 (Georgetown – Timehri) minibus is now dead and 11 of his passengers are nursing injuries after they collided head on with a pick-up along with New Hope, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road early yesterday morning.
The country’s first drug treatment court, aimed at providing alternative sentencing and reducing the rate of incarceration for non-violent drug offenders, is expected to be established before the end of the year.
A father of six was shot and killed early yesterday morning during a scuffle at a city bar and the police force has since issued a wanted bulletin for the suspect, who has been identified as an ex-policeman.
A well-known Guyhoc Park, East La Penitence mechanic was shot and killed in the wee hours of yesterday morning during a scuffle with two gunmen, who invaded his home in what appeared to be an attempted robbery.
The movements of citizens in and around the city can now be monitored following the activation of a Huawei-built Safe City Command Centre for the CCTV Surveillance system, a component of the US$36 million National Broadband Expansion Project (NBEP).
A wrongful death lawsuit is to be filed against the state by the widow of taxi-driver Lallbachan Bachan, who was discovered dead in the Suddie Police Station lockup on Monday, days after he was taken into custody.
Four teenage fishermen have been reunited with their families after being stranded at sea for a harrowing five days, during which time they were forced to eat raw macaroni and drink salt water.
The mother of Ramkarran Mohan, the four-year-old who died after being hit by a car driven by the daughter of a senior rank of the Guyana Police Force more than two years ago, is still demanding justice for her son.
A team of doctors on Wednesday successfully performed Guyana’s first minimally invasive brain aneurysm surgery.
Joel Simpson, Managing Director of the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), says the act of hate crimes complainants being turned away from police stations and referred to another, is “daunting and breaks your spirit”, noting that it takes a lot of courage for one to report a matter to the police.
Police investigators are still trying to determine how the accident that claimed the life of seven-year-old Ciarra Benjamin occurred along the Agricola Public Road on Saturday afternoon, Traffic Chief Linden Isles said yesterday.
Two eyewitnesses to 18-year-old Kareema Mary Cholmondeley’s final moments of life say that she threw herself into the path of the car that ran over her last Wednesday night, after repeatedly threatening to kill herself during an argument with her husband.
Relatives of Kareema Mary Cholmondeley are still seeking answers as to what exactly transpired on the night of her death since they said they do not believe her husband’s account.
The husband of Kareema Mary Cholmondeley has denied pushing her into the path of the car that ran over her along the Turkeyen Railway Embankment last Wednesday.
Decomposed remains suspected to be those of a mother of five who was reported missing several days ago were yesterday afternoon found buried in a shallow grave next door to her husband’s Crane, West Coast Demerara home and he has been taken into custody.
A long-running feud ended tragically yesterday morning when a 21-year-old miner was fatally shot in front of a nightspot in Bartica and the suspect was detained after his mother turned him into the police hours after.
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